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English artist, writer, socialist and activist; one of the principal founders of the British arts and crafts movement, a writer of poetry and fiction and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain
This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. Mo."
This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. Mo."
William Morris
Works
- Early romances of William Morris in prose and verse, 1907 (external scan)
- Stories from Morris, 1907 (external scan)
- The collected works of William Morris; with introductions by his daughter May Morris, 1910
- v. 1. The defence of Guenevere. The hollow land.
- v. 2. The life and death of Jason.
- v. 3-6. The earthly paradise.
- v. 7. The story of Grettir the Strong. The story of the Volsungs and Niblungs.
- v. 8. Journals of travel in Iceland. 1871. 1873.(external scan)
- v. 9. Love is enough. Poems by the way.
- v. 10. Three northern love stories. The tale of Beowulf.
- v. 11. The Æneids of Virgil.
- v. 12. The story of Sigurd the Volsung and the fall of the Niblungs.
- v. 13. the Odyssey of Homer done into English verse.
- v. 14. The house of the Wolfings. The story of the Glittering plain.
- v. 15. The roots of the mountains.
- v. 16. News from Nowhere. A dream of John Ball. A king's lesson.
- v. 17. The wood beyond the world. Child Christopher. Old French romances.
- v. 18-19. The well at the world's end.--v. 20. The water of the wondrous isles.
- v. 21. The sundering flood. Unfinished romances.
- v. 22. Hopes and fears for art. Lectures on art and industry.
- v. 23. Signs of change. Lectures on socialism.
- v. 24. Scenes from the fall of Troy and other poems and fragments
- Prose and poetry (1856-1870), 1913 (external scan)
- William Morris, 1923 (external scan)
Books
- The Hollow Land (1856)
- "A Dream of John Ball", illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones (1888) (start transcription)
- The House of the Wolfings (1888) (external scan)
- The Roots of the Mountains (1890) (external scan)
- News from Nowhere, or an Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance (1891) (external scan)
- The Story of the Glittering Plain, or the Land of Living Men (1891) (external scan)
- Socialism, its growth & outcome With Ernest Belfort Bax, 1893 (external scan)
- The Wood Beyond the World (1894)
(external scan) - Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair (1895) (external scan)
- The Well at the World's End: A Tale (1896)
- The Water of the Wondrous Isles (1897) (external scan)
- The Sundering Flood (1897) (transcription project)
Poetry
Collections
- The Poems of William Morris, 1904 (external scan)}
- The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems (1858) (external scan)
- The Life and Death of Jason (1867) (external scan)
- The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870) (external scan) (The Earthly Paradise: A Poem (part II), Project Gutenberg)
- Atalanta's race, and other tales from The earthly paradise, 1888 (external scan)
- The doom of King Acrisius (external scan)
- Love Is Enough, or the Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality (1873) (external scan)
- The Pilgrims of Hope (1885) (external scan)
- Chants for Socialists (1885) (external scan)
- Briar Rose (1890) (external scan)
- Poems by the Way (1891) (external scan)
- Pre-Raphaelite ballads, 1900 (external scan)
- Early poems of William Morris, illustrated by Florence Harrison. New York: Dodge. 1914
- The Defence of Guenevere; King Arthur's Tomb; Sir Galahad, a Christmas Mystery; The Chapel in Lyoness; Sir Peter Harpdon's End; Rapunzel; The Blue Closet; Concerning Geffray Teste Noire; A Good Knight in Prison; Golden Wings; The Eve of Crecy; Old Love; Father John's War Song; The Gilliflower of Gold; The Judgment of God; Shameful Death; The Sailing of the Sword; The Little Tower; The Wind; Spellbound; The Tune of Seven Towers; Two Red Roses Across the Moon; The Haystack in the Floods; Welland River; Riding Together; Sir Giles' War Song; Near Avalon; Praise of My Lady; Summer Dawn; In Prison.
Individual poems
- The lovers of Gudrun, 1870 (external scan)
- "The Defence of Guenevere"
- "The Blue Closet"
- "Masters in This Hall"
- "Minstrels and Maids"
- "Pomona"
- "Pygmalion and the Image" (external scan)
Short works: Essays, Lectures and Addresses
- The decorative arts, their relation to modern life and progress, 1878 short work (external scan)
- Labour and pleasure, versus labour and sorrow, 1880 (external scan)
- Chapter VI. The lesser arts of life in Lectures on Art (1882) (external scan)
- Hopes and Fears for Art (1882) (external scan)
- A summary of the principles of socialism with Henry Mayers Hyndman, 1884 (external scan)
- "Textile fabrics" in The Health Exhibition Literature, 1884 (external scan)
- Art and socialism, 1884 (external scan)
- "Mural Decoration" (1884) in Encyclopaedia Brittanica (1911), vol. 17; with John Henry Middleton
- The Aims Of Art, 1887 (external scan)
- Signs of Change (1888) (external scan)
- The revolt of Ghent, 1890 (external scan)
- The soul of man under socialism, The socialist ideal art, and The coming solidarity. With Oscar Wilde, W. C. Owen, 1892 (external scan)
- Monopoly, or, How labor is robbed, 1893 (external scan)
- "Preface," "Textiles," "Printing," and "Of Dyeing as a Art" in Arts and Crafts Essays (1893) (external scan)
- Art Under Plutocracy Published in Today, 1884?, reprinted in Collected Works of William Morris (1910-1915), Volume 23 (M. Morris, Ed.). London: Longmans, Green & Co.
- Useful work versus useless toil, 1893 (external scan)
- True and false society, 1893 (external scan)
- How I became a socialist, 1896 (external scan)
- Art and the beauty of the earth, 1898 (external scan)
- An address delivered by William Morris at the distribution of prizes to students of the Birmingham municipal school of art, 1898 (external scan)
- Some hints on pattern-designing, 1899 (external scan)
- Architecture and history, and Westminster Abbey, 1900 (external scan)
- Art and its producers, and The arts and crafts of to-day, 1901 (external scan)
- Architecture, industry & wealth; collected papers, 1902 (external scan)
- The art and craft of printing, 1902 (external scan)
- The art of the people, 1902 (external scan)
- The hollow land: and other contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1903 (external scan)
- Factory work as it is and might be, 1922 (external scan)
Editor
- The Commonweal, 1885-1889 vol 6 no 209
- Poems chosen out of the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1896 (external scan)
Translations
- The Story of Grettir the Strong with Eiríkr Magnússon (1869) (external scan)
- Three Northern Love Stories, and Other Tales with Eiríkr Magnússon (1875) (external scan)
- The Æneids of Virgil, 1876 (external scan)
- The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs with Eiríkr Magnússon (1877) (external scan)
- The Odyssey of Homer, 1887 (external scan)
- The Saga library, 1891
- Of the friendship of Amis and Amile, 1894 (external scan)
- The Tale of Beowulf with A. J. Wyatt (1895), translation into modern English (external scan)
- Old French Romances, Done into English (1896) (external scan)
Contributions to EB1911
- "Mural Decoration," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
Other
- Preface to Good King Wenceslas by John Mason Neale, (1904). (external scan)
- Preface to The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin, 1892 (external scan)
- Preface to Medieval lore by Anglicus Bartholomaeus, 1893 (external scan)
- Foreward to Utopia by Thomas More, 1893 (external scan)
Work about Morris
- "Morris, William (10)," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
- "Morris, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Morris, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "William Morris," in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers (1873)
- William Morris: poet, artist, socialist by Francis Watts Lee, 1891 (external scan)
- William Morris as an Exponent of Socialism, 1905
- "Morris, William (1834-1896)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
- Mackail, John William (1899). The Life of William Morris. London etc.: Longmans, Green & Co.
- Glasier, J. Bruce (1921). William Morris and the Early Days of the Socialist Movement. London etc.: Longmans, Green & Co.
- William Morris: His Work and Influence by Arthur Clutton-Brock, 1914 (external scan)
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